A cultural variety show titled Shang Xin Le, Gu Gong is taking China by storm.     1     (translate) as There is Something New in the Forbidden City, the unique TV program has been going on air every Friday night since November 9, 2018 on Beijing TV. It is set to show the former Chinese imperial palace complex     2     a new light.

It is not the first time that the Forbidden City, or Palace Museum,     3     (appear) in a TV program. Previous efforts sought to introduce the historical site to audiences through documentaries (纪录片),     4     followed cultural relic (遗址) repairers at the Palace Museum and were the     5     (one) TV program on China Central Television in 2016.

The new show is being     6     (public) praised for its light-hearted way of bringing the museum much     7     (close) to ordinary people. Zhu Yong, director of the Film and Television Department at the Institute of Gugong Studies, is     8     chief screenwriter for the show. He said the show hopes     9     (present) the museum’s cultural treasures to young audiences in a creative and     10     (fashion) way.

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Last month, 28–year–old model Huang Qian decided to add baduanjin to her daily routine. At first, she saw videos of people practicing on social media     1     (platform). So she     2     (natural) associated it with the kind of exercise favored by the elderly because of slow movements. Nevertheless, now Huang enjoys practicing the exercise,     3     stretches and relaxes her whole body. Baduanjin, a form of qigong, is a set of traditional Chinese fitness exercises     4     (combine) physical movement with breathing and meditation. It     5     (date) back to the Song Dynasty(960–1279). Baduanjin uses breathing and concentration techniques     6     (improve) body and mind through eight well-designed sequences.     7     (compare) with other types of qigong exercise, such as tai chi and wuqinxi, baduanjin is more suited to beginners thanks to     8     (it) simple, gentle movements. Huang was also excited to find out that one of her favorite fitness influencers, German Pamela Reif,     9     (add) baduanjin to her workout videos already. The video has received more than 900,000 views, 49,000 likes and 24,000 reports since it was posted on Bilibili on Aug 8. Like many traditions, such as hanfu and music, baduanjin is receiving a growing     10     (recognize) from people of all ages and is making a return to daily life.

Escape from the British Museum

A video series named Escape from the British Museum     1    (release) on Wednesday with its trailer (预告片)     2    (spark) a lot of discussion in China’s social media.

    3    (direct) by two Chinese vloggers, the three episode series tells the story of     4     a Chinese cultural relic escapes from the British Museum and finds     5    (it) way back to China.

In the video series, a female vlogger plays the role of an ancient Chinese jade teapot     6     her male partner is a journalist who helps the artifact return to China. They went to the UK in June and spent three months     7    (shoot) the video. They said the story is based on historic facts and aims to draw attention to the Chinese cultural relics held abroad.

Currently, the museum has a total of 23,000 Chinese relics, while about 2,000 Chinese relics are     8     long-term display. The Chinese objects,     9    (stretch) from the Neolithic age to the present, include paintings, prints, jade and ceramics.

“Eventually, there will be a day     10     the items come home in a dignified way,” a user commented on Weibo. The series release has come as the British Museum faces intense pressure over the thefts.

A seminar (研讨会) was held in Beijing recently. According to its report, the Chinese TV series     1    (adapt) of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem, the first Asian novel to win the Hugo Award, has gained popularity overseas.

Statistics show that     2     series has gained a rating of 7.9 out of 10 on the foreign review company IMDb and has accumulated 5 million views on YouTube, one of the     3    (popular) video platforms in the world.

Gao Changli, director-general of the TV drama department at the National Radio and Television Administration, said that the drama contains a lot of thoughts and knowledge     4    (inspire) by China’s traditional philosophy and culture,     5    (offer) a distinctive edge for homegrown tales in the world’s sci-fi landscape. He also mentioned that the drama has been     6     preparation and production for seven years and has done a good job of bringing to life the typical     7    (scene) described in the novel.

Producers have also revealed that currently they     8    (produce) Three-Body Ⅱ: The Dark Forest,     9     is the second episode in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy. Meanwhile, more quality works will be produced to     10    (positive) publicize Chinese culture in the overseas markets.

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A new adaptation of Chinese mythological stories has won the heart of audiences with its distinctive style. The animation series, Yao—Chinese Folktales,     1     (gain) more than 110 million views online since it was released.

The series, co-produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and Bilibili, is     2     collection of 20-minute short films, consisting of eight separate stories     3     (feature) monster-like characters, or yao in Chinese. The collection,     4     ranges from ancient stories to science fiction, from emotional connection with hometowns to romantic love     5     from life themes to questions for humanity, presents Chinese culture and philosophy. For example, the first episode, named “Nobody”, tells a pig monster’s story     6     (base) on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. The creative team put the perspective on the little monsters who used to have blurry faces and didn’t even have names in the story.

Li Zao, general producer, said it was impossible     7     (predict) what the eventual outcome would be at first. Now, the     8     (favor) comments exceeded the expectations of the creative team. These contained both the audience’s     9     (recognize) of the work and their hopes of Chinese animation. Besides adapting     10     the taste of the masses, the team also wanted to guide them to appreciate different types of work.

TED Talks are really cool. But do you know what TED stands for and where it comes from? In February 1984, a group of technology enthusiasts     1    (gather) in Monterey, California, to share thoughts on three subjects—technology,     2    (entertain) and design. It was the start of the acronym (首字母缩略词) and the organisation TED.

Then in 2001, Chris Anderson,     3     magazine entrepreneur (企业家) purchased TED through his non-profit foundation from TED co-founder Richard Saul Wurman. The style of TED then went from a closed conference     4     an open platform for spreading ideas. Indeed the organisation’s motto is “Ideas worth     5    (spread)”, and the new website TED.com makes that     6    (true) happen.

The organisation really didn’t assume its current form and its expansive (广泛的) public footprint until 2006. In 2006, TED’s leadership decided to put its collections of     7    (record) talks online for free. The thinking was     8     there were limits to how much impact a talk could have if its audience was only a thousand people, even if those people were influential ones. Back then, it     9    (consider) a risky and even radical move. But now, TED staff members can give a series of 1.9 million TED Talk video views a day, 1,600 plus TED Talks online, 9,000 TED     10    (event) in 157 countries.

Can red TV dramas awaken a strong desire in young people to learn about China’s revolutionary history? The answer is yes. Chinese TV drama Awakening Age, which narrates the story of     1     the Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded in 1921, ended several months ago, but it remains a hot topic on social media,     2     discussion shows that it has played a positive role in educating young people about China’s revolutionary history. The TV series     3     (celebrate) this year’s 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC has won high praise online.

The South Korean survival drama “Squid Game”,     1     didn’t catch audiences’ attention at first,.has gained popularity     2     (gradual), even in remote places.

In China, the dystopian(反乌托邦的) series     3     (base) on a children’s game has become one of the most talked-about topics on social media sites over the past week. Moreover,    4     (view) its short videos more than 1.8 billion times    5     the micro blogging platform Weibo is a wonder in the drama history and the audience are unwilling to cease    6     (play ) it in an instant.

In the nine episodes（剧集）streaming on Netflix, 456 people competed against each other to play several games for     7     chance to win more than $37 million. The players participated in those dangerous games, hoping the money    8     (help) in repaying     9     (debt) or reduce their     10     (finance) pressure. Issues in this drama, experts said, reflected the inequalities in South Korea.

Henan TV’s “Mid-Autumn Wonderful Tour” takes     1     (tradition) culture as its core content, and     2    （adopt） the form of “web series” + “web variety shows” to present the beauty of intangible heritage,     3     is “beyond your imagination”.

Chinese dance “crane coming home” shows the elegant posture and power of cranes and the beauty of the full moon     4     the Mid-Autumn night, while at     5     same time delivering good wishes for the Mid-Autumn festival with the “crane”.

Martial art dance “Shaolin kung fu” presents the wonderful picture of dancers     6     (enter)the world of murals (壁画) and competing with monks.     7     (main) filmed in the Shaolin Temple, the show featured four different     8     (scene), namely, "Wind, Fire, Forest and Mountain", to present the magic of Chinese kung fu.

Program “Guanghan Palace”, takes the fairy tale of Chang'e running to the moon as the prototype, and uses     9     (advance) techniques to visualize the beautiful life of Chang'e, yutu, moon, and Guanghan palace. The dancers' gentle steps and the lunar astronauts form a beautiful painting that expresses the vision of lunar exploration     10     ancient times to now.

The Palace Museum in Beijing released its calendar for 2022 on September 6 although the Year of the Tiger is still more than four months away. “The calendar has become a new way for many people     1     (record) their life,” Chen Lihua, editor-in-chief of the calendar, says.

Though printed calendars seem to have lost     2     (they) functionality in the digital era, the museum s delicate calendar has become     3     item to collect. On each page of the new calendar, a tiger-themed cultural relic of the Palace Museum is introduced,     4     (range) from a jade ornament (翡翠) in the shape of a tiger dating back some 5,000 years     5     paintings created by modern Chinese masters such as Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian.

“The tiger is     6     stands for strength and energy in traditional Chinese culture.” Chen says, “We want to reflect tiger-related culture from various     7     (aspect).”

As the 2022 Winter Olympics     8     (schedule) to be held in China in February, a section of the calendar will introduce royal winter sports during the Qing Dynasty through art pieces.

In spite of the established reputation, creativity is still     9     (bad) needed for new editions of the annual calendar. Other than new design of pages, augmented (增广的)reality is now being used, making it     10     (access) for readers to have a better view of the moving pictures of cultural relics by scanning QR codes.